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Scene 1Skena 1East Berlin, 1989Berlini Lindor, 1989
At the Berliner EnsembleNë Asamblenë e Berlinit
[The Sign Man, our guide, introduces each scene, holding up placards a la vaudeville.][Njeriu i Shenjave, drejtuesi ynë, prezanton çdo skenë, duke mbajtur lartë shenjat
a la vaudeville
]SIGN MANNJERIU I SHENJAVEScene One. East Berlin. 1989. at the Berliner Ensemble.Skena Një, Berlin Lindor. 1989. Në Asamblenë e Berlinit.[Two American investment bankers in pin-striped suits sit with one or two Chinese investmentbankers in pin-striped suits, and Zhu in a Mao jacket. They sit in five simple, easy chairs. Atranslator sits at a small table between the Americans and the Chinese, with an unopeneddictionary on the table. The Chinese men are white men with "Oriental" make-up. The translator isa white woman in a Chinese silk sheath dress with "Oriental" make-up. Behind them is a vastbank of brown paper filing cabinets. A photograph of Mao is on the wall. A photograph of DengZiaoping is on another wall. Each of the five has a little tea table in front of him with a preciouslittle Sung Dynasty pot and cup. They speak to one another very quietly and with a certainformality or courtliness.Note: in the following dialogue "wwwwwwww
" is speech in Chinese that is rendered by the actorsas (offensive, politically incorrect) made-up Chinese-sounding gibberish.]
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“Ching-chang-ching” is used for translating “Wwwwww” as it would be the way locals would imitate Chinesetalking. Also, while we understand that Mee's Ws are meant as placeholders, there is no "W" in the Albanianlanguage.
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